Resilient heel for boots and shoes.



W. J. MERRY. RESILIENTHEEL FOR BOOTS AND SHOES. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 28, 1913.

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WALTER J. MERRY, F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

RESILIENT HEEL FOR BOOTS AND s'Hons.

Specification of Letters lPatent.

Patented May 26, 1914.

Application filed November 28, 1913. Serial No. 803,631.

silient Heels for the following is a specification. My invention relates to improvements in resilient heels for boots and shoes, the object of the invention being to provide in a rubberheel at its point of greatest wear, a plurality of relatively small coiled springs which will prevent undue wear at such point, yet will not interfere with the resilicncy but rather augment the same. I A further object is to provide an improved arrangement of coupled coiled Boots and Shoes, ofwhich springs which are embedded in the material and to act/as anti-skids to of the hee with the extreme ends of said springs adapted to contact with the ground preventslipping, which frequently occurs when the heels become smooth.

with these and other objects inview, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements' of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims." 4

Inthe accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a top plan view illustrating a heel embodying my improvements. Fig. 2is a view in section on an enlarged scale on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of my improved heel.

1 represents the heel which is of rubber or other composition commonly employed in the manufacture of resilient'hecls. Located diagonally across the heel, adjacent its rear end where the greatest wear comes upon the heel, I provide a plurality of coiled springs 2 which are embedded. in the material of the heel. These springs 2 are connected at their upper ends. A preferable arrange ment is shown clearly in Fig. 2, in which.

two of the springs are, formed by a single piece of spring wire, the connecting portion thereof indicated by the reference number 3.

The third spring has one end extended as shown at 4 and connected to its ad aCent coiled spring. By thusconnecting the coils they are maintained in parallelism while the rubber of the heel is molded around the same and comprise a single spring cushion:

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f vAs seen most clearly in Figs. 2. and 3, the extreme lower ends 7 of the coils are exosed, so that they act to grip the ground prevent. slipping.

and expansion of the heel. They, however prevent undue Wear of the composition 0- the heel as they reinforce the-heel at the point of greatest Wear so that the life of the heel 1s greatly lengthened, and its resilient qualities greatly improved.

ile I have described a preferred arrangement of springs, I would have it understood that I may vary thenumber of thesesprings and may points, either on greatest wear is had, and hence I do not limit myself tothe precise details set fort-h, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall Within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my Iclairn as new and desire to ters Patent is:

1. A heel composed 'of yielding material having embedded therein a plurality of vertically disposed parallel coiled springs, the lower ends of said springs exposed at the lower surface of the heel, substantially as described. '3 n...

secure by Let- 2. A heel composed of yielding material having embedded therein a plurality of vertically disposed parallel coiled springs, the If upper ends of said springs being connected, and the lower ends of said springs exposed at the lower surface tially as described.

3. A heel composed of yielding material having embedded therein a plurality of vertically disposed parallel coiled springs, said coiled springs located adjacent the outer rear edge of the heel at the point of greatest wear and connected at their upper ends, and the lower ends of the coils exposed at the surface of the heel, substantially as described. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing itnesses.

-WALTER J. MERRY. lVitnesses:

M. E. Drrros, 1 CHAS. E. Porrs.

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